In a rare win for environmental issues within the World Trade Organisation, the WTO's Appellate Body on October 22 upheld the legality of a United States ban on fishing practices which endanger the sea turtle.
Malaysia had sought to
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Among all the words the United States government has used to describe the September 11 terrorist attacks — "atrocity", "outrage", "act of evil" — one phrase has been conspicuously missing: "crime against humanity". It's an odd
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SYDNEY — Metalworkers from around the world will march through Sydney's central business district on November 13 to "stop corporate globalisation", in one of the first such demonstrations by unionists in Australia. One thousand
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US firm Kerr McGee and French oil group TotalFinaElf have won lucrative concessions from the Moroccan government, granting them permission to explore potentially rich oilfields off the coast of occupied Western Sahara. During an
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On September 27, Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgian prime minister and European Union (EU) president, wrote an open letter to what he calls the "anti-globalisation movement", in which he questioned "contradictions" in its arguments, claimed
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The United States has given its clearest hints yet that the "war on terrorism" will extend to many more targets than Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban and many more countries than Afghanistan. In the first days after the terrorist
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BRISBANE — Have you ever worried about what would happen to all the protests if the summits of world leaders suddenly stopped? Well, don't. On the evidence here in the last few days, the movement for global justice is still ready to
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Washington, DC, on September 29-30 weekend in opposition to President George Bush's plans to launch a war in the Middle East in retaliation for the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US.
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The world's only superpower has declared the "first war of the 21st century", a "new kind of war" against "global terrorism'", a war in which "there are no rules". In a chilling parallel to threats by Islamic fundamentalists to
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What do you call it when someone regards the lives of people with one particular skin colour and nationality as being worth more than the lives of those with another skin colour and nationality? US President George Bush professes
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If you've seen the movie, you'll know that, once it had hit the iceberg, the Titanic took a long time to sink. That might be just what we're seeing happen to the World Trade Organisation. Almost two full years after its plans to
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Cuban President Fidel Castro has condemned the terrorist attacks on Washington, DC, and New York, but has warned that "there are possibly dangerous days ahead for the world" unless the government of George W Bush realises that "None